Here’s a fact about the Earth you probably don’t know: Technically, the Earth is known as an “oblate spheroid” due to ... So why do they look white? Light hits their fur and is trapped ...

Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an ... Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though only telescopes can see it.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what ... Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent - though only telescopes can see it.

The ISS orbits at an altitude of 354km (220 miles), while the average distance to Mars from Earth is a staggering 225 million kilometres (140 million miles). Astronaut Frank Rubio holds the record ...

Earth has long alternated between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 years -- unless human-caused global warming disrupts ...